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Re: Buying a Miata

To: kwitt@shore.net, fizzx@wi.net, autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Buying a Miata
From: "Jeffrey Lloyd" <jslz3@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:19:22 PST
OK OK
Here is the true torsen test

Park the car with one wheel on pavement and one on dirt if the dirt 
wheel Spins wildly you have an open diff, if the car gets more traction 
on the Road side and pushes towards the dirt you probally have a 
standard LSD, if both wheels get as much torque as they can handle and 
the car launches straight as an arrow then chances are you are torsen 
equipped..
YMMV

Jeff 

>
>At 09:32 PM 3/9/99 -0600, Jason Powell wrote:
>>Yup...all R's have Torsens.
>>The easiest way to tell if you have a Torsen is stop the car...rev to
>>redline...dump clutch and lay rubber.  If you see two pretty much 
equal
>>length marks you got a Torsen :-)
>
>That just tells you that you have a non-open diff. any decent limited 
slip
>diff will do that when you dump the clutch.
>
>Karl
>


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